Holding signs and childhood photos, child sex abuse victims and their supporters will pass out leaflets at a Tucson church where a convicted sex offender now works. The leaflets will warn church members about the music minister, who pled guilty in 2000 to two counts of child molestation, and urge them to

This week, members of SNAP learned that Eric Holtan, a music minister at Dove of Peace Lutheran Church in Tucson church http://www.doveofpeacetucson.org/ plead guilty in 2000 to two counts of child sexual abuse involving two girls in Duluth, Minnesota. Holtan served two years in prison and is still on probation. As a part of his probation, he is supposed to have no unsupervised contact with underage females.

"How did Eric Holtan pass a background check?" said Joelle Casteix, SNAP Volunteer Western Regional Director. "We don't know how Holtan got his job or what he told his donors. We do know that he must be in violation of his probation, is breaking the policies of the ELCA, and is definitely duping the people of Tucson about the serious danger he poses. He apparently is a charismatic guy, which is a common trait of sex offenders. The public needs to know the facts: he molested girls, he pled guilty, and now he is in possible violation of his probation. What else is he lying about?"

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This isn’t the only church that hires sex offenders, knowingly. The one who was hired at a sister church to ELCA took our minister student son to its altar and raped him at gunpoint!! They stop at nothing to destroy these children. Our son was a promising young minister at that time, but had been raped repeatedly by a friend of this fiend when he was 12 years of age. The Bishops and Clergy do not understand. THAT’S RIGHT—do not understand the harm that is done.

Constance Taylor commented
2013-11-20 13:44:11 -0600

This isn’t the only church that hires sex offenders, knowingly. The one who was hired at a sister church to ELCA took our minister student son to its altar and raped him at gunpoint!! They stop at nothing to destroy these children. Our son was a promising young minister at that time, but had been raped repeatedly by a friend of this fiend when he was 12 years of age. The Bishops and Clergy do not understand. THAT’S RIGHT—do not understand the harm that is done.

Constance Taylor commented
2013-11-20 13:44:11 -0600

This isn’t the only church that hires sex offenders, knowingly. The one who was hired at a sister church to ELCA took our minister student son to its altar and raped him at gunpoint!! They stop at nothing to destroy these children. Our son was a promising young minister at that time, but had been raped repeatedly by a friend of this fiend when he was 12 years of age. The Bishops and Clergy do not understand. THAT’S RIGHT—do not understand the harm that is done.